GILTNER, NE — On December 19, 2021, Bish Enterprises was approved for a grant valued at $80,000 in funds to aid in the development of a new innovative product called the FiberCut™, a hemp stalk multi-tier sickle mower. Funding for this project was provided by Nebraska...

An application to gain federal approval for the use of hemp products in layer feed has already been filed, but efforts are being made to also seek a similar approval for hemp products in broiler feed. Speaking during the Midwest Poultry Federation (MPF) Virtual...

As hemp becomes more common across the state organizations are working to find ways that it can be utilized to the fullest extent. One of those groups is the Hemp Feed Coalition, which spoke at the Nebraska Ag Expo Feb. 23 in Lincoln.This organization is led by...

Andrew Bish from Hemp Harvest Works & Bish Enterprises This week on the podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Andrew Bish, the COO of Bish Enterprises and the founder of Hemp Harvest Works, both in Giltner, Nebraska. Bish enterprises is known for its header...

Union contract “gag” clause The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office has declined to weigh in on whether a recent clause in a contract with a state corrections officers union is an unconstitutional gag on free speech. The clause requires members of the union to oppose a...

Hemp Industries Association® Awards Recipients Honored at HIACON19 Last week the Hemp Industries Association held its 2019 Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina where the results of this year's awards recipients, voted on by the membership, were announced....

CHICAGO, Oct. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Barchart, the leader in commodity data, jointly announces a new strategic partnership with PanXchange, the leading benchmark price provider in US Hemp and the defacto benchmark price provider for US Frac Sand (proppant). Under...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., October 13, 2020 (Newswire.com) - ENTEXS, a Sacramento-based manufacturer of hemp and cannabis extraction equipment, has signed a distributor agreement with design, engineering and sales firm, Hemp Harvest Works. The agreement extends ENTEXS’ reach...

Hemp Feed Coalition aims for approval to use hemp in animal feed Layer hens fed a diet containing hemp seed produced bigger eggs with more omega-3 content. That’s according to a study referenced by Andrew Bish, founder and CEO of Hemp Harvest Works and chief operating...

It’s a cloudy, muggy, buggy morning at the University of Nebraska’s Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center, about 30 miles north of Lincoln. Agronomy Professor Ismail Dweikat stands in the middle of a small field of green hemp plants, their leaves spreading...

COLLBRAN — Roughly double the attendees compared to last year flocked to the third-annual Hemp on the Slope event at the Salt Creek Hemp Co. ranch on Saturday, an increase in popularity that mirrors the uptick in hemp growing across Colorado. The state's industrial...

The first annual Ohio Industrial Hemp Farm Summit occurred November 17th at Delaware County Fairgrounds starting early in the morning running late into the evening. The event was well attended with over one-hundred people showing up. It was organized by Julie Doran,...

GILTNER, Neb. — Last week, lawmakers reached an agreement on the 867 billion dollar farm bill, pushing it through both chambers with the expectation that it will be signed into law by the end of the year. A few items on that bill might be paving the way for our...

LINCOLN — Years of disappointment and perceived foot dragging by state bureaucrats are inspiring worries among those seeking to plant and profit from soon-to-be legalized industrial hemp in Nebraska. Hemp backers, in interviews, pointed to the state’s...

HC: WHAT DO YOU DO AT AT ALL THE HEMP CONFERENCES YOU GO TO ALL OVER THE COUNTRY?CC: I was an MC at the Southern Hemp Expo and then also at the Hawaii Hemp Conference and then at the Portland event (NECANN Maine Conference). I was flying in from Maine to see my...

America’s Largest Hemp Expo Adds Pre-Conference Investment Forum to Full-day Business Conference, Farm Symposium and Expanded Exhibit Hall This press release was orginally distributed by ReleaseWire Denver, CO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/25/2019 -- From botanicals to...

A No-Till Farmer Staff Report The summer farm shows offer a great way to see the latest innovations in ag equipment. Between the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Il., and Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, Neb., No-Till Farmer staffers found a wide array of offerings...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Two months after President Donald Trump signed a law to legalize hemp, Nebraska lawmakers and state agency officials are working together to help farmers get a piece of the market. Lawmakers heard public input Tuesday on a bill that would allow...

IT ALL STARTED WHEN…February 17, 2019 Advocacy, CBD, Commerce, Farmers, Federal Commerce- USA, general, Hemp, Industry Professionals, Kight On Cannabis, News, Products, Providers & Retailers, States Commerce Rod Kight The Hemp Authority’s Certification Program Has...

With growth and production of industrial hemp newly legalized by the 2018 federal farm bill, the Legislature began Tuesday to shape legislation that will hand beleaguered Nebraska farmers a new crop option. "You can't get high on hemp, but you might make enough money...

With the legalization of hemp as a crop for farmers in the 2018 Farm Bill, Nebraska needs to get on board the hemp bandwagon and allow its farmers to diversify. Sen. Justin Wayne of Omaha has introduced LB657, seeking to legalize hemp farming in the state and enable...

Kansas farmers in Carhartt coats and ball caps shuffled past booths learning about cannabinoid oil companies. The Kansas farmers were joined on the rainy Saturday morning by counterparts from Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Nebraska, as well as CBD oil business...

IT ALL STARTED WHEN…I recently wrote and published an open letter, signed by many leading stakeholders in the hemp industry, about significant flaws in the proposed Hemp Authority certification program supported by the Hemp Roundtable (HRT) and Hemp Industries...

MINDEN — A Nebraska Hemp Education Experience, a program about growing industrial hemp, will be presented from 9 a.m.-noon Tuesday on the Kearney County Fairgrounds in Minden. It is hosted by Doug Miller of South Central Crop Consulting and an LG Seeds Dealer....

IT ALL STARTED WHEN…For some, it’s Wyoming’s next big industry. For others, it’s a solution for small, independent farmers looking to take the power back from the mega-growers that have made commodity crops an unprofitable enterprise. But for the nearly 200 farmers,...

PHOENIX, May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hemp Industries Association® (HIA®), in association with Hoban Law Group, Bluebird Botanicals, and Bish Enterprises, is launching a national campaign aimed at addressing Facebook's current advertising policy of prohibiting the...

Nebraska's hemp farming act has passed, is signed and delivered. With an emergency clause, it's already in effect.  But farmers and others who want to participate in growing the alternative crop are still waiting for the state Department of Agriculture to take their...

The first industrial hemp crop planted in Nebraska since the 1950s was hand-sown Sunday evening in a field near Giltner. Brothers Andrew and Jacob Bish, along with Andrew's daughter, Eliana, planted two test plots of Nebraska heirloom hemp. There's just one problem....

Gov. Pete Ricketts and First Lady Susanne Shore want to recognize Nebraskans who played a role in the recovery from the bomb cyclone that struck the state in March and caused heavy rainstorms and floods, which required disaster declarations for 81 counties and 104...

GILTNER — A few feet away from his mother’s garden here, Andrew Bish pointed to a hemp plant he planted June 9, the last day of Hemp History Week. The plants, only a few inches tall, were planted in one of three, 260-inch rows. “I know it’s going to grow well. I’m...

GILTNER, Neb. — If you believe the hemp hype, it could be the nation's next cash crop. Some of the cheapest seeds are selling for $1 a piece. "It costs more than gold by weight right now," explained Andrew Bish, a hemp advocate and the chief operating officer of Bish...

We speak with Andrew Bish about the politics of hemp in Nebraska and Bish Enterprises's new hemp harvesting technologies. “It’s time for the hemp industry to step up and say: enough of the bullshit!” – Morris Beegle on discrimination against the industry Learn more...

Episode SummaryAndy Bish grew up in a multi-generational Nebraskan farming family; he's now applying a life-time farming and agricultural machinery experience to the hemp industry. Episode NotesAndy Bish grew up working in the agricultural equipment business that his...

PILGER — A search for new opportunities led Loraine and Gene Ott to the Cooper Family Community Center in Pilger on Friday. They weren’t alone. The place was packed. “The cattle market’s down,” she said. “We need another option.” So did 175 others attending the...

A NEBRASKA FARM EQUIPMENT DEALER WHO DID NOT RECEIVE A STATE LICENSE TO GROW HEMP UNDER A NEW LAW HAS SUED THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND ITS DIRECTOR.Jacob Bish of Bish Enterprises in Giltner was not among the 10 producers who received a license in July to...

PHOENIX, Aug. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hemp Industries Association® (HIA®), in association with Hoban Law Group, Bluebird Botanicals, and Bish Enterprises, pushes forward on their national campaign aimed at addressing Facebook's advertising policy that prohibits...

They’re Building Equipment To Harvest, Process Hemp Bish Enterprises in Giltner, Neb., has been building specialty farm equipment since the late 1970’s and has been featured in FARM SHOW many times.Now the company is getting into the business of building hemp...

GILTNER, NEB. — Hemp could be a game changer in rural America, but those trying to expand this budding industry say banking, insurance, and advertising remain off-limits, and that’s holding them back. “There's no THC in this stuff. Not gonna get you high.” Most of us...

Dan Humiston: [00:00:07] Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Hemp Barons. I'm Dan Humiston and today's guest is from a multigenerational Nebraska farming family. Their company is now applying their over 40 years of agricultural equipment experience to...

GILTNER, NEBRASKA - “This is a first for the American hemp market,” said Andrew Bish standing beneath a John Deere 630F Platform Header lifted 9’ in the air, “and it will dramatically lower the barrier of entry into the hemp industry.”  This new kit offered by Bish...

PHOENIX, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hemp Industries Association® (HIA®) announces a diverse lineup of national sponsors and hemp industry leaders for the 26th annual Hemp Industries Association Conference -- HIACON -- November 1 through November 4, in...

Last week, Nebraska celebrated FFA week dedicated to the future leaders of Nebraska's largest industry. Governor Rickett's said, the way to grow Nebraska is to grow agriculture. He also added, with 1 in 4 jobs in the state tied to ag, more workers are needed. Brandon...

The NoCo Hemp Expo returned to the Ranch Events Complex in Loveland for the fifth year on April 6 and April 7, 2018, and the event dedicated to all things hemp was bigger and better than ever, with nearly 60 speakers, 150 exhibits and the expo's first-ever farmer...

Every year, producers in Hamilton County and the rest of Nebraska watch as corn, soybean and other grain prices fluctuate leaving those farmers constantly unsure where their profits will land. Yet, a potential solution is on the horizon and Giltner’s Bish Enterprises...

CASH CROP TODAY IS HONORED TO PRESENT THE FOLLOWING FEATURED ARTICLE FROM KRYSTAL GABEL, CANDIDATE FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR THE GOVERNOR OF NEBRASKA. ​ I propose introducing industrial hemp as an agricultural commodity in the Nebraska economy.  If Nebraska...

NEBRASKA CITY – Potential growers at the Midwest Hemp Forum in Syracuse Saturday were encouraged with the prospect that Nebraska may issue hemp licenses to all qualified applicants for 2020. Andrew Bish, who founded Hemp Harvest Works after returning to the family...

One of the 176 applicants seeking a license to grow hemp for Nebraska’s research program this year was Jacob Bish, the head of Public relations at Bish Enterprises and Hemp Harvest Works. Bish was not among the ten candidates that the state granted licenses. In a...

A year has passed since President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized the cultivation of industrial and CBD-rich hemp. This legislative breakthrough set the stage for the first largescale hemp harvest in the United States since the Second World War. So,...

NELIGH, Neb. — After a successful 2019, educating over 700 farmers at five hemp forums in Clatonia, David City, Pilger, York and Syracuse, Midwest Hemp Forum is proud to announce the first event of 2020, the upcoming Neligh Hemp Farmers Forum on Feb. 21 hosted by the...

Nebraska farmers and producers now have the opportunity to apply for a hemp license, and the Nebraska Hemp Industries Association said they're here to help. "It is very exciting," said Jacob Bish, NEHIA treasurer and Bish Enterprises public relations. "Only 10 people...

Union contract “gag” clause The Nebraska Attorney General’s Office has declined to weigh in on whether a recent clause in a contract with a state corrections officers union is an unconstitutional gag on free speech. The clause requires members of the union to oppose a...

Hemp, as a food, fiber and oil crop, has a huge potential of bringing a positive economic benefit to Nebraska’s agricultural industry, according to two speakers who spoke Monday at the Nebraska Independent Crop Consultant Association’s meeting in Grand Island....

Last week, Nebraska celebrated FFA week dedicated to the future leaders of Nebraska's largest industry. Governor Rickett's said, the way to grow Nebraska is to grow agriculture. He also added, with 1 in 4 jobs in the state tied to ag, more workers are needed. Brandon...

WICHITA FALLS (KFDX KJTL) — The agriculture industry is important to the country, bringing jobs, food, and other products, and Thursday many gathered at the JS Bridwell Ag Center for the Ranch, Farm and Hemp Expo. Despite outside forces trying to change agricultural...